Johnny Hicks and His Troubadours - Curb Service ~1950

Johnny Hicks was born on May 19, 1918 on a farm near Kansas City, Missouri. I wasn't able to find much about his early life, however the story picks up in 1938 while attending the University of Texas, he was offered a job as a radio announcer at a local Austin Texas station. He became the host of then Governor of Texas Wilbert Lee O'Daniel's country music program. He would move on to become a DJ over at KABC San Antonio and WBAP Fort Worth where he'd fully get converted to country music by none other than Ernest Tubb. He moved to Dallas in 1942 where he got to work with greats like the Callahan Brothers and Jim Boyd. In 1946, he went back to KRLD Dallas where his broadcasts would reach Canada and Mexico. He began his own daily radio show called "The Cornbread Matinee" before taking over the "Big 'D' Jamboree" where he would both host guests as well as perform and sing for the next decade which would see it transition from radio to television in that time.
As seen with today's song, he also recorded for Columbia Records and was a prolific writer including such popular songs as the story of a recalled soldier in "I Thought I Was Home To Stay", the semi-weepy story of a blind man in "The Man On The Corner", and a sort of tribute to Bob Wills, "I Can’t Get Enough Of That Ah-Ha" (which can be found on the channel). The flip side to that song is this one, "Curb Service", which was written by Hicks and and Buddy Feyne. The vocals were provided by Johnny with back ups by his Troubadours which consisted of Billy Jack Saucier on fiddle, Buddy Griffin on guitar, Jimmy Kelly on steel guitar, Bobby Williamson on bass, and Leon Rhodes on electric guitar. The recording took place on March 25, 1950 in Dallas Texas at the Jim Beck Studio. The Troubadours would join in on 14 total sides
He would "retire" to California in the 1960's even though he was still presenting his "Johnny Hick's Country Gold" on KTOM in Salinas, and lived until 1997.